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Sleeping in SKILL

gsimard

Hi,

 

 I need a function that would do a sleep for X milliseconds or seconds. I need to wait for an asynchronous task to complete so I'm polling a flag regularly, but I don't want to take the whole CPU in a while loop. Any idea ?

 

 Thank you,

Guillaume

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  •  Yes I have just done that.

     This would work just fine, however, I really NEED a blocking function.

     The keypoint is that I want to use the optimizer, and run an extraction between each step. What I was intending to do is to add a dummy goal in the optimizer that would do the extraction, and that command would really need to block the execution of the optimizer until the extraction is complete.

    Right now I am thinking of just stepping the optimizer, from another function, then run the extraction, step the optimizer again, and so on, all that with a series of hiRegTimer calls.

    Any simpler solution that could let me use the optimizer's full abilities without stepping it "manually" via skill code would be better though

    EDIT: SorryAndrew I overlooked your second reply. The background "process" seems to require a communication with the SKILL interpreter at some key points, just for printing to the ICFB I think (I don't know the inner details of it though), which seems to be why it gets held if I have a function running.

    Guillaume

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  •  Yes I have just done that.

     This would work just fine, however, I really NEED a blocking function.

     The keypoint is that I want to use the optimizer, and run an extraction between each step. What I was intending to do is to add a dummy goal in the optimizer that would do the extraction, and that command would really need to block the execution of the optimizer until the extraction is complete.

    Right now I am thinking of just stepping the optimizer, from another function, then run the extraction, step the optimizer again, and so on, all that with a series of hiRegTimer calls.

    Any simpler solution that could let me use the optimizer's full abilities without stepping it "manually" via skill code would be better though

    EDIT: SorryAndrew I overlooked your second reply. The background "process" seems to require a communication with the SKILL interpreter at some key points, just for printing to the ICFB I think (I don't know the inner details of it though), which seems to be why it gets held if I have a function running.

    Guillaume

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